The Witching Hour
  • Published: 27 May 2025
  • ISBN: 9781804952849
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 1216
  • RRP: $29.99

The Witching Hour

Lives of the Mayfair Witches

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From the beloved and legendary gothic horror author, Anne Rice, comes this spellbinding New York Times bestselling series, perfect for fans of Interview With The Vampire and A Discovery of Witches.

Rowan Mayfair is special.

A brilliant neurosurgeon with a hidden legacy, she’s unaware that she’s a descendent of an ancient witch bloodline.

Michael Curry was dead.

When a drowned body washes up on the coast of California, Rowan finds him one day and brings him back to life.

Now, he lives with a mysterious and terrifying new power.

Drawn together by a fierce and irresistible bond, they must dive into the secrets that surround them both.

And when dark truths are uncovered, the witching hour begins.
  • Published: 27 May 2025
  • ISBN: 9781804952849
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 1216
  • RRP: $29.99
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About the author

Anne Rice

Anne Rice is the author of more than thirty internationally bestselling books including the Mayfair Witches sequence, Songs of the Seraphim and the Wolf Gift Chronicles. The phenomenon that became the Vampire Chronicles began with Interview with the Vampire in 1976, later made into a film starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, and culminated with Blood Canticle in 2003. Prince Lestat, published in 2014, and Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis, published in 2016, were the first new Vampire Chronicle novels for over a decade. Anne Rice lives in California.

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Also by Anne Rice

Blood Communion
Ramses the Damned: The Passion of Cleopatra
Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis
Prince Lestat
The Wolves of Midwinter
The Wolf Gift
Of Love and Evil
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Praise for The Witching Hour

Compelling... Sensuous... Engrossing... Rich

Wall Street Journal

Vintage Rice - lush prose, dense atmosphere, steamy sex, gothic tension

San Francisco Chronicle

Morbid delights, sexually charged passages and wicked, wild tragedy

Publishers Weekly

Anne Rice did what so few writers do, and created something truly original.

Cassandra Clare, New York Times bestselling author of Sword Catcher

Rice tantalises us to the very last page of the book, and beyond.

The New York Times

A sensual, genre-defining thriller from the queen of gothic horror.

Jay Kristoff, bestselling author of Empire of the Damned

A titan of the gothic genre. Daring, dark, and lovely.

S.T. Gibson, Sunday Times bestselling author of A Dowry of Blood

A surfeit of macabre delights, summoning up lush decadence, gothic secrets, and a little brimstone.

Holly Black, Sunday Times bestselling author of Book of Night

Beautifully written.

Kirkus Reviews

Rice offers another vast, transcontinental saga of witchcraft and demonism.

Publisher’s Weekly
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